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Industrial Policies Aren’t Working
"If other governments insist on harming their countries’ economies with such interventions, that’s their business. We can pity the citizens of those countries." ~Donald J. Boudreaux
DOJ Ruling on Google Ignores the Reality of Exclusive Contracts
"Consumers clearly have options when it comes to search, but because they consistently choose one product over the other does not mean that the exclusive contracts indicate anticompetitive behavior." ~Spence Purnell
American natural gas is America’s clean energy standard
WITH TIMOTHY NASH: Abundant and affordable energy drives America’s powerful and productive economy. That’s been true throughout our nation’s history, and America’s recent achievement of energy independence provides the most…
Some glaring contradictions in the climate narrative
I will start this hammering of three major points in the climate narrative. that Tropical Cyclones were going to increase due to warming, that warming is more costly, and that arctic sea ice would disappear (and Greenland ice…
Business Conditions Monthly June 2024
"While the Federal Reserve's progress in controlling inflation may provide the latitude needed to begin rate cuts aimed at supporting employment...the United States has either entered, or is on the verge of…
Biden-Harris Iran-Israel policy proves extortion works
By Rick Manning Thousands of Islamo-fascist protesters are surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. Businesses in the area surrounding the convention center have already boarded up their windows…
Biden is wrong. Inflation has far outpaced wages and personal incomes by every measure since Biden and Harris took office. You are not better off.
By Robert Romano “Wages up, inflation down, way down and continuing to go down.” That was President Joe Biden in his political farewell address to Democrats assembled in Chicago, Ill. for the Democratic National Convention on…
The Permanent Temptation of All Governments
"The math of 2 percent compound shrinkage demonstrates that the Fed wants to depreciate the dollar’s purchasing power by 80 percent in each average lifetime. Somehow the Fed never mentions this." ~Alex Pollock
Public Goods in a Free Society
"Even under this supposed solution to a market failure, we’re getting less public goods than we get shafted for. Like many other well-intentioned public finance policies, in time they turn into pure money grabs."…
Regulators need to stop assuming they can get away with everything
Saying the “expansive regulatory state encouraged by Chevron deference has undermined our system of government, overburdening our citizenry, and threatening to overwhelm our Founders’ system of checks and balances,” members…
